Ebay Vs E-commerce

[bbwspares]

Hello there,

I am new to running an Ebay store for my workplaceand was thinking maybe a Ecommerce store

would be easier
Due to the number of changes on here our sales have dropped alot since about the start of the year.

I have rectified some problems that were caused by the person before me running this store.

EG: getting our ebay fees down from $900 to around $150.

I am happy to provide any information to people for them to give me some positive information and to steer me in the right direct.

Thanks

[rakem2011]

We have an amazing e-commerce shop built for us by an great company in australia, with all the changes to ebay we will be taking most of our products off and placing on our web site, we are over the moon with this new site and the help we have received in getting it set up, we still have a lot of work to do but now we will only have a fee of $99 a year and our site was only $500 to get built it is linked to pay pal and extremely secure once we have all our stock on web site we are going to add adwords to give it a boost, we are also contacting all of our wonderful customers to let them know were we are, this is such a worth while step couldn't be happier, you are welcome to contact us for information on how to get your own e-commerce shop.

[phorum_junkie*]

Have you maximised your ebay store exposure by using a web site which directs people to your ebay store,  once you add as many key words as you can think of as time passes you will start to appear higher and higher in google searches?

[davewil1964]

I would ask the question most would ask -

Why are you asking whether eBay or your own site is better? On ebay?

You will either get those who wouldn't contemplate running their own site (me) or those whose niche is adequately serviced by their own site. Which means any post on eBay is an advertisement.

Think about it.

[vitaboosthealthstore]

Hi I saw your post on the forum and I tought it was very helpful . Thanks

I am running an Ebay store and I am getting to the same conclusion as you about starting my own ecommerce store.

Do you mind sharing the contact of this person who set up your site? If not I totally understand.

There are so many out there that becomes hard to know who to hire and

It looks like you are very happy with them and it is always good to get a good reference.

Cheers

Gisele

[haolove13]

I am questioning if Ebay is worth it nowadays with increased costs and reduced protection for sellers. And we are having more and more problems with poor delivery by Aus Post whichmeans we can not win in a dispute as Aus Post now do not guarantee safe delivery.

If we use registered post with signature etc the customers complain about high postage costs, so how do we win?

[davewil1964]

I suggest if you want to contact rakem2011, you use the contact a member facility. Although, as this thread is SIX MONTHS old, there is a possibility they have already fully migrated away from eBay. Assuming having their own website was successful.

I would be wary of bandwidth limits if only paying $99pa for site hosting, though.

[grounds.2009]

Yes, me too I'm eager to know these people..can you post a link or you need our email address?

[clarry100]

Yes... we too have just started the process to get our own e-commerce site up and running. We have found a really good developer we feel very happy with. Hope to go live about April next year.

Like many on here, we have been very unhappy with the treatment we have been receiving (as sellers) over recent months by ebay.

We are thinking we will probably keep our two ebay stores alive but definitley in a reduced capacity. Mainly to provide just enough income to pay the much smaller costs associated with the main site startup. And in time as the main site takes over we will close out of ebay altogether.

IMHO if ebay continue to treat their sellers badly they will end up with none/few left. And once buyers are increasingly unable to find what they are looking for on ebay they will migrate (take their $$$) to other sites. I think ebay (at least in Australia) will die a slow death unless they change their business model. They are way too buyer focussed.

[thendreamer]

I have two accounts on ebay for both my businesses and currently only one website. The website i have makes over 3x as much per customer then any of my ebay stores but at the moment has a smaller amount of customers every mounth.

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@clarry100 wrote:

IMHO if ebay continue to treat their sellers badly they will end up with none/few left. And once buyers are increasingly unable to find what they are looking for on ebay they will migrate (take their $$$) to other sites. I think ebay (at least in Australia) will die a slow death unless they change their business model. They are way too buyer focussed.

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ebay is not focused at all to me towards sales, the ads make no sense at all. Listings should be clean and not cluttered up with useless information and ads blinking everywhere to distract buyers. Fraud, Counterfit goods and false item locations are just getting out of hand.